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You tie your shoes, put on your headphones, take your first few steps outside. You’ve barely covered a hundred yards when you hear them. They must be close.

You can hear every gutteral breath, every rattling groan - they’re everywhere. Zombies. There’s only one thing you can do: Run!

Zombies, Run! is an ultra-immersive game for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android where you help rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse. By going out and running in the real world, you can collect medicine, ammo, batteries, and spare parts that you can use to build up and expand your base - all while getting orders, clues, and story through your headphones.

It doesn't matter where you run.It doesn't matter how fast you run.It doesn't matter how far you run.

Just run.

So... it's about running?

Zombies, Run! is about making the thrill of running even better with a game and a story delivered through your headphones. We’re making running more fun, more exciting, and more addictive for everyone from couch-to-5k newbies to weekend joggers and marathon runners. And Zombies, Run! works anywhere - in a park, along a beach, in the city, even on treadmills!

Also: we don’t make you watch your screen while you’re running; we don’t make you change your favorite routes; and you don’t need to buy any fancy armbands or tracking devices. All you do is press a button when you start, and another button when you’re done. That’s it. We follow your lead.

Story, Game, & Fitness App: A Triple (Zombie) Threat!

You’re Runner 5. Hundreds of lives are counting on you. You've got to help your base rebuild from the ruins of civilization by collecting critical supplies while avoiding roving zombie hordes. Can you save them?

You receive orders and hear the story told through radio messages and voice recordings between your own custom playlists. Missions last around 20-30 minutes in real time and there'll be over 30 unique missions in Season 1.

You'll automatically collect items like medicine, batteries, and ammo while running, and once you’re back home, you get to assign them to different parts of your base. Who needs the vitamins more, the soldiers or the doctors? Which buildings need extra defenses? It’s up to you - and the bigger your base, the more missions you’ll have access to.

But what are the leaders of your base scheming about? How did you get there? Where did the zombies come from? There’s a deeper mystery to be uncovered, puzzles to be solved, websites to be discovered, documents to be viewed so you can learn the truth of what’s happened to the world.

Zombies, Run! records the distance, time, pace, and calories burned of all your runs, and we’re keen to add RunKeeper integration. There's also the option to hear audio notifications of for time, distance, and pace during your run. If you want to get fit while also saving the world, this is the game for you.

Why we need your support

Zombies, Run! is a pure indie game. We’re self-funding the development, art, writing, and promotion 100% from our own pockets, and we’re happy to do that because it’s a game we’ve wanted to make for a long time, and it’s real labour of love.

We want Zombies, Run! to be the best game it can possibly be, and that’s where your support will be incredibly valuable to help pay for great voice actors, better sound production facilities, exhaustive testing, and of course, making your rewards!

What we'll do with any extra funds

For each extra $5k raised, we’ll recruit one special guest of your choice to lend their voice to a character in the game. You’ll be able to vote on who you’d like to hear, and we’ll do everything within our power to secure their talents. Imagine Nathan Fillion, Ellen McLain, or Felicia Day as zombie-killers - it could happen!

The T-Shirt!

This is a mockup of our T-shirt which comes in 3 different colours on high quality fabric (think American Apparel) - it’s what we imagine Runner 5 actually wearing in the game. Even if you get turned into a zombie, people will still be able to identify you from your good-looking corpse!

T-shirts will come in a range of sizes, and in both men and women's cuts.

The Poster!

This is the artwork we're planning to use for our Zombies, Run! poster, which will be printed at A1 size (that's 85cm x 60cm). Very stylish, we think you'll agree.

A note about ideas

Of course we welcome your comments and suggestions on Zombies, Run! but please don't make them if you are going to claim rights in them; and please be aware that if we use them you won't be able to turn round and say that you somehow own bits of the game. Therefore by submitting comments you are agreeing that we can use them and any rights in them in any way we like.

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Pledge US$ 10 or more
About $10

Help rebuild civilization by becoming a RECRUIT and receiving the game before anyone else! It’s dangerous to go alone, so we’ll also provide some extra in-game protection and all the Season 1 content (worth $20+), plus a place on the Survivor’s Register.

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Pledge US$ 20 or more
About $20

Prefer eating brains? Become a ZOMBIE in the game by calling up our hotline and giving us your best “help, my trachea is falling out of my rotten neck” impression. For science. Plus the game and your name in the credits!

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Pledge US$ 45 or more
About $45

Promoted to LOOKOUT, eh? Show off your new status to the folks in the shattered remains of your local bar with a snazzy T-SHIRT or POSTER. That’ll let everyone know you’re into the beta test and on the Survivor’s Register as well, you badass.

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Pledge US$ 85 or more
About $85

SCOUT: Looks like someone’s flagged you for the roll of honour. Your donation means we’ll NAME SOMETHING IN THE GAME after you, like a park or a street or a dead guy. It’s just like being president but without the sex scandals. You’re even important enough to get a T-Shirt AND a poster, plus the rest. We are not worthy.

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Pledge US$ 200 or more
About $200

RANGER: OK. Now you’ve proved yourself worth some proper training, we just can’t afford to lose you. That means you get a copy of the RUNNERS’ FIELD GUIDE containing top-secret survival techniques we reserve for our elite runners. And all the above rewards.

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Pledge US$ 200 or more
About $200

BACKSTAGE PASS: There's more going on than meets the eye here, so we're going to welcome you back to where the magic happens. Hang out with us in online chats, get your questions answered and give feedback. Plus, you'll be invited to a mission-brainstorming session - we guarantee to make at least one of the ideas from that session, and if it's your idea, your name will be in it as a character of your choice! You also get the RUNNERS' FIELD GUIDE and all the above.

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Pledge US$ 350 or more
About $350

Be a RUNNER and save the world! Name and create your own in-game character with our writers, receive personalised dog tags, running swag, and all the awesome equipment listed above. It's like being 006 or 008! Without you, we’d all be eating stone soup before the end of the week.

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Pledge US$ 1,500 or more
About $1,500

[EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNT] Serious support receives serious rewards. All the supplies our intrepid Runners are out collecting - the food, the canned drinks, the medicine? We’ll work with you to NAME A BRAND or item in Zombies, Run!

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Pledge US$ 2,500 or more
About $2,500

Serious support receives serious rewards. All the supplies our intrepid Runners are out collecting - the food, the canned drinks, the medicine? We’ll work with you to NAME A BRAND or item in Zombies, Run!

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge US$ 3,000 or more
About $3,000

Organising a charity race? We’ll add zombies. Regular training group? Make them into zombies. How about a marathon-themed wedding? Time for zombies. We’ll create a CUSTOM MISSION that turns your run into a bespoke, action-packed, zombie-infested spectacular.